Alissa Blair Data-verified

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Assistant Professor

University of Arkansas

Last publication 2026 Last refreshed 2026-05-23

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4 h-index 25 pubs 200 cited

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Alissa Blair's research focuses on language and education, particularly within multilingual school settings. Her work investigates how leadership structures and pedagogical approaches can support diverse student populations. She has examined the principles of Systemic Functional Linguistics and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in teacher education, often employing Design-Based Research methodologies. Blair also analyzes the discourse surrounding educational policies, including critical policy discourse analysis of anti-CRT policies. Her publications explore the integration of functional approaches to language development in university coursework and the linguistic resources utilized for translanguaging in expanding language ecologies.

Blair is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Her scholarship metrics include an h-index of 4, with 24 total publications and 192 total citations. She has collaborated with several researchers at the University of Arkansas, including Christian Z. Goering, Jason L. Endacott, Karen K. Lange, and Mehmet Gültekin.

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h-index: 4
Publications: 25
Citations: 200

Selected Publications

‘Anything physical I’m big on now’: learning to support emergent bilingual students (2026)

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Linguistic resources and classroom conditions for translanguaging in a newly expanding language ecology (2026)

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Integrating a Functional Approach to Language Development in University Teacher Education Coursework (2025)

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The discursive tactics of perpetuating white normativity in public education: A critical policy discourse analysis of anti-CRT policies across 18 states (2025)

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Advancing principles of systemic functional linguistics in responsive graduate teacher education through design-based research (2025)

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Expanding teacher understanding of scaffolding for multilingual learners using a language-based approach to content instruction (2024)

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Distributed <i>liderazgo</i> : the making of spaces and leadership structures for a multilingual school ecology (2024)

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Distributed Liderazgo: The Making of Spaces and Leadership Structures for a Multilingual School Ecology (2023)

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Using Family-Centered Practices to Increase Language Access for Multilingual Deaf or Hard of Hearing Children (2021)

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